Soft Power brings together artistic practices that explore material culture as a form of knowledge, memory, and agency. The exhibition is on view throughout Art Week and forms the core framework within which all time-based works, performances and sound formats unfold.
Participating Artists
Alisa Reimer
Anahita Sadighi
Cat La FeyDragana
IKĀ
Karen Rumbos
Karina Amadori
Marcela Navarrete
Marianela Fuentes
Marsica Fossati
Renata De Anda
Tyler Goldflower
Vanessa Zarate
Soft Power brings together artistic practices that approach material culture as a form of knowledge and agency that extends across media. The exhibition focuses on processes in which memory, craft, ritual and artistic research converge—not as nostalgic gestures, but as culturally and politically charged practices. Here, soft power is understood as a subtle, relational force that unfolds through attention, care and transformation.
At its core are materials and mediums that carry and transmit history: vessel, fiber, stone, pigment, glass, image and sound. The participating artists engage with these elements not as fixed substances or inherent qualities, but as mediators between body, culture and territory—as carriers of lived experience that can be translated across different forms, including sculpture, painting, photography and sound.
Many of these practices emerge from spaces of the feminine, the communal and the everyday—contexts in which knowledge has been transmitted across generations through repetition and shared experience. Together, they form a constellation of memory techniques and poetic archives, in which craft is understood not as a category, but as a position within artistic practice.
In this sense, Soft Power proposes an expanded understanding of agency—one that operates through the understated and the relational. The exhibition opens a space in which artistic and material practices act as subtle political forces, inviting audiences to reflect on how these relational forms of intelligence resonate within contemporary global realities.
